But since the predominant organizational headgear for the Detroit Pistons the past five years resembled that of a court jester, there's understandably some excitement at The Palace of Auburn Hills that their search for a new president of basketball operations and head coach ended with a single hire.

Stan Van Gundy can coach. But Tom Gores is gambling a reported $35 million over the next five years that Van Gundy can capably juggle the daunting responsibilities of coaching a team that chews coaches up and spits them out with regular ease, while also overseeing a vast organizational cultural change.

Good luck.

Van Gundy's a recycled coach liberated from the NBA scrapheap, cleaned, polished and passed off as a fresh new vision for what would be his third team.

Nobody disputes that he knows his basketball. But if this was the best chief executive that the headhunting firm Gores commissioned to engage in a far-reaching personnel search could come up with, it's yet another example of the Pistons being more interested to engage in what's expeditious rather than what's the correct path for a franchise desperately seeking a complete rebuild.

The best candidate's often the guy you never heard of, somebody unearthed through exhaustive diligence. There was an assistant general manager out there with a wealth of knowledge from successful organizations such as the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder that have consistently won through sound drafting.

But instead the Pistons opted for an attention grab, combining both positions to entice interest amid other more high-wattage head coaching openings with the Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers.

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Byron Scott was hired by the Lakers after being fired a year ago by the Cavaliers. Scott, a great player for the Lakers in the 1980s and 1990s, has a 416-521 career record with three teams (Cleveland, New Orleans and New Jersey). Brett Davis, USA TODAY Sports

The Cavaliers hired David Blatt, a veteran European coach with no NBA experience. Blatt last coached Maccabi Tel Aviv but also has coached the Russian national team and other teams in Israel, Russia, Greece, Italy and Turkey. Guiseppe Cacace, AFP/Getty Images

Flip Saunders already was the Timberwolves' president of basketball operations, but after not landing the head coach he wanted, he'll take that job, too. Saunders has a 638-526 career record. Richard Sennott, AP

Steve Kerr will get his first coaching experience with the Warriors, who hired him to replace Mark Jackson. Kerr was general manager of the Suns from 2007 through 2010. Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY Sport

John Loyer may still have a job with the Pistons, but the interim head coach tag is no longer his. Loyer went 8-24 after taking over for Maurice Cheeks but will be replaced by Stan Van Gundy. Tim Fuller, USA TODAY Sports

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The Spurs' Gregg Popovich became head coach after already holding the general manager title, and his team has a trusted player evaluation system in place. Doc Rivers got the added title from the Los Angeles Clippers as a means for prying him loose from the remaining years of his coaching contract with the Boston Celtics last year.

But it won't work with the Pistons.

It's not about maintaining a blueprint but rather creating it. There's too much attention to detail as the director of basketball operations, especially for a franchise seeking an escape from the competitive abyss.

There really isn't any down period in a basketball presidency. It doesn't matter how many basketball eyes Van Gundy trusts as his subordinates out there in collegiate outposts on wintry nights attempting to find that raw diamond in the next draft. Van Gundy himself must be directly involved.

But he'll be coaching in Milwaukee and Minnesota, trying to squeeze the maximum out of the talent he inherited.

Both the coaching and franchise supervision could suffer under those conditions.

This was another public relations move for Gores. Another attempt at convincing an increasingly disinterested public that NBA basketball is still relevant in the Detroit area.

I'm sure he's pleased that he snatched Van Gundy away from the Warriors with the promise of organizational control. But it was an unnecessary risk putting absolute trust in somebody with absolutely no prior basketball administrative experience.

Van Gundy lost previous battles with management in regards to his occasionally combative coaching style. He butted heads with Dwight Howard as the Orlando Magic's head coach, ultimately leading to his dismissal two years ago.

But this time, he would have the backing of the front office because he would be the head of the front office.

Perhaps that ensures that Van Gundy the Pistons president will keep Van Gundy the Pistons head coach longer than 50 games next season.